CEO Oliver Bäte: "We will take sustainability to the heart of Allianz"

Allianz has the ambition, as well as the global scale and skills, to be the trusted partner of our stakeholders, helping to solve society’s most pressing issues. We believe in collaboration and partnerships, as many of the sustainability related matters require global action beyond company boundaries.

We support the transformation towards sustainable economies and societies this means that we want our economy to provide the societal minimum for all while not breaking ecological barriers. Our ambition is to integrate sustainability into everything that happens at Allianz, into our decision making, thereby driving real world impact in societies, economies and the environment. 

Already today, we are taking environmental, social and governance aspects to the heart of our business. Going forward, we are working to fully integrate sustainability into how we run our organization and our business alike, and to drive real world impact in societies, economies, and the environment.

Watch Oliver Bäte explaining why sustainability is so important to Allianz. 

The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with around 125 million* private and corporate customers in nearly 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 737 billion euros** on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage about 1.7 trillion euros** of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are among the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2023, over 157,000 employees achieved total business volume of 161.7 billion euros and an operating profit of 14.7 billion euros for the group.
* Including non-consolidated entities with Allianz customers.
** As of December 31, 2023.
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